Pandas love the mountains and snow. Mount Hood, in the picture, is near my home in Oregon.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Incredible MEDIEVAL MOSAIC

William the Conqueror 1066

The picture above is a bit of the the 42 meter* long metal tapestry, created by Michael A. Linton, over a period of twenty-five years, he says, "in my spare time".

A quote from 1066 -"This complete re-creation of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the Battle of Hastings in 1066, was created out of 1,500,000 pieces of spring steel. The tiny pieces of steel, which have an area approximately 7 square millimetres, are the off-cuts from a patterning disk used on a very large industrial knitting machine."

As originally recreated in a twenty-year span, the tapestry is about half-scale (at 33.8 meters) to the original. In another five years, Michael, working with his daughter Rachael, created what might have been the missing scenes,adding about nine feet in length to his original work.

If I calculate correctly, nine of these bits of spring steel would fit into one square inch, with a tiny bit of space left over. Drawing a square inch, dividing it into thirds both ways (nine parts), I see that one of these bits of spring steel would not quite cover the fingernail on my pinky finger.